It is learnt from Supreme People's Court on January 28 that, courts across China will implement the newly adjusted rating jurisdiction standard in intellectual property (IP) related civil cases since February 1 this year.

In order to better implement the national IP strategy, the Supreme People's Court issued the Notice on Adjusting the Jurisdiction of Courts across China in Intellectual Property Civil Cases and made adjusting for the jurisdiction standards.

Under the Notice, IP related civil cases of first instance in which the litigation object is 0.2 billion yuan or more, the ones whose litigation object is 0.1 billion or more and one party of the case is outside the jurisdiction of the court, or any foreign related, Hong Kong related and Macao related civil cases of first instance, are all under the jurisdiction of the high courts. And IP related civil cases with lower standard belong to the intermediate people's court, except the ones appointed by the supreme people's court to the grass-root people's court.

It is learnt that, as of today, the Supreme People's Court has specified 92 grass-root people's courts with common jurisdiction over IP related civil cases.

(Source: IPR in China)